Prince of Ales: Harry offers stunned landlady £650K to buy her pub

BOTTOMS UP: Prince Harry shocked the landlady of his new favourite pub by offering to buy it from her [APEX / REUTERS]

Pat Seddon was astonished when the Prince turned up at her ale house with a group of mates on a stag weekend.

Harry and his friends downed pints of lager and bitter as they sat in the beer garden for a session that lasted several hours.

Pat said: “Harry told me how much he liked the pub and I joked he could buy it.

“I told him how much I would sell it for, £650,000, and he said he would have the cash ready.”

“Harry told me how much he liked the pub and I joked he could buy it.”

Pat Seddon

But after showing what Pat thought was genuine interest, Harry, 29, backed out.

She added: “He said he had only £6.50 in his pocket at the moment so, of course, it was a no.”

Pat’s Maritime Inn beside the harbour in Brixham, Devon – once a smugglers’ haunt – featured in a Sky TV series about the port called Fish Town.

The pub claims to be “unique, untouched by modernisation” and Harry was clearly bowled over by its charms. Pat said: “They did tell me they were on a stag weekend and introduced the groom. But they were behaving wonderfully, not like your usual stag party.

“Everyone was impeccable. I have no idea what Harry specifically was drinking.

“There was lots of drinks going to the table but it was for a lot of boys. There were a lot of beers and spirits going back and forth.”

Harry’s visit to Brixham came as it emerged that his former long-term girlfriend Chelsy Davy, 28, is now dating a Devon jeweller.

And locals speculated whether the pub was selected in the hope that the newly-single Prince could bump into his lost love.